Hydrogen on Wheelsby Jim
Thu
28 May 2009
5:05 pm1
28 May 2009
5:05 pm1
Today I got to drive a hydrogen fuel-cell powered car. Justin and I went to downtown Livermore to the event and got to test-drive a hydrogen Nissan. We only got to drive it half-way around the block, but it was still really cool. All of the hydrogen cars are actually hybrids; they are part fuel-cell, part electric. When the engine needs a little more oomph, there is a lithium ion battery that kicks in. Also, you get regenerative braking that charges the battery. Very cool.
For the geeks out there, it was a PEM hydrogen fuel cell. (That’s Proton Exchange Membrane, just in case you didn’t know that.) Check out the Wikipedia article for more cool stuff.
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9:54 PM on May 28th, 2009
That’s really cool. I’m glad you didn’t explode. 🙂 (I worked for mechanical engineers who expressed significant amounts of concern about exploding cars.)